20 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Habitat. — ^Himalayas, Ladak. 



Distribution. — Recorded from Pangi, 12,000 feet. Sanch Pass, 14,000 feet 

 (type). The form leela was taken by de Niceville at Zogi-la, on the Ladak side, at about 

 11,000 feet elevation, and at Mamyka Pass, Ladak, 13,000 feet, and at Fotu-la, Ladak, 

 about the same elevation. The species is variable, but undoubtedly both ellisi and leela 

 are forms of one species. 



SECTION v.— Cyaniris. 



Genitalia agrees with Aricia in having the hard process markedly larger than the 

 soft one, but it has a more special character in the hook of the dorsal process being 

 folded at the bend to about 170°, i.e. the base and upper part almost folded together. 



Type, Semiargus, Rottenburg. 



PLEBEIUS ANNULATA. 



Plate 644, figs. 3, ^, 3a, ? , 3b, 9 . 



Lycsena semiargus, var. annulata, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1906, p. 484, pi. 96, figs. 12, (J, 11, ?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brownish-black with a slight purplish tint, with blue 

 iridescence in certain lights leaving broad blackish margins to both wings, and also 

 to the costa of the hindwing. Costal line of forewing and cilia of both wings pure 

 white. Underside pale grey, spots small, black, narrowly ringed with white. Forewing 

 with the costal line pure white, with black inner edge, the entire wing, except a small 

 outer marginal space, suffused with pale blackish-brown, with some obscure darker 

 streaks on the veins ; a short linear mark at the end of the cell, a diseal evenly curved 

 row of five spots. Hlndiuing with three sub-basal spots, a diseal row of six spots, 

 evenly and deeply outwardly curved, a linear mark at the end of the cell, the inner 

 third of the wing with blue irrorations, both wings with a sub-terminal row of 

 brown lunular marks, rather far from the margin, the upper ones on the forewing more 

 or less obsolescent ; marginal line black. Cilia pure white. Antennae black, ringed with 

 white ; head and body black above, with white bands on each side of the eyes, white 

 beneath. 



Female, similar to the male, above and below, with less iridescence above. 



Expanse of wings, ? ? ly% inches. 



Habiiat. — Gyantze, Thibet, 13,000 feet elevation. 



The types are unique ; it is a very distinct form. 



ALLIED CHINESE, JAPANESE AND AFGHAN SPECIES. 



Plebeius argus, Papilio argus, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 483 (1758). Habitat, Central Japan, 

 Europe, Asia Minor, Amurland. 



